Reaction and analysis

Pep Guardiola hits out at VAR after Llorente’s disputed goal for Spurs

That’s it for tonight’s blog. I’m off to... yep, watch the highlights of this match. Thanks for your company and emails, most of which I’ve not had chance to read yet. I’ll leave you with Danny Taylor’s report on the most dramatic game I’ve seen in many a decade. Goodnight!

Spurs prevail in epic Champions League battle as Llorente stuns Manchester City

Here’s Mauricio Pochettino “Unbelievable. I am so happy, so proud of my players – they are heroes – and so happy for our fans. And now we have to come here again on Saturday! That is why we love football – anything can happen. We showed great personality; to score three goals here is not easy. I would like to congratulate Manchester City, who were fantastic, but I think our effort was massive too.

Spurs edge Champions League thriller as Llorente stuns City with knockout blow

Here’s Pep “We scored a goal and VAR made the rest. [Was it the right decision? We’re talking inches here] The inches was the handball. That was inches. Our goal was offside, and that’s cruel. It is what it is. Llorente’s goal was handball. Maybe the referee didn’t see the right image; from another angle it’s handball.

“The first half was not normal. In the second half we created a lot of chances. They are a strong team and unfortunately we are not in the next stage. [The quadruple’s gone, Pep?] Yeah, it’s gone.”

I’m going to attempt to have a comfort break, though in truth I’m not sure many of my functions are working right now. I’ll be back in two minutes with more reaction to whatever it is we’ve just witnessed.

“If Harry Kane had scored three goals over two legs to drag Spurs past Man City in a Champions League quarter-final, they’d be linking him to Real Madrid for €300m,” says Pascal Chan. “So Son is of course being linked to no one for nothing.”

Christian Eriksen “I’m the luckiest guy on the planet with that last goal being disallowed. The whole game was a rollercoaster – goals, goals, goals, goals, and drama everywhere. It was a fun game to play [Really?!].”

Son “I’ve never played in a game like that. We are very proud, it’s an unbelievable night. Sometimes VAR is annoying; today it was ‘thank you, and good decision’. I’m so emotional now that I don’t know what I’m saying!”

That last Sterling goal. What happened was this: Eriksen tried to play his way out of trouble, which looked very silly when his pass back towards Davies ended up at the feet of Aguero. He found Sterling, who scored with indecent coolness. But it turned out there had been a touch off Bernardo Silva before the ball reached Aguero, and he was just offside.

Spurs will play Ajax in the Champions League semi-final. Ilkay Gundogan is in tears. Fernando Llorente is the greatest substitute in history. I can only talk in short sentences. Truly, I have never seen a game like that. It had four goals in the first 11 minutes - and the end of the match was even more dramatic!

86 min: Chance for Gundogan! Fernandinho drives a pass out to Sane, who stretches to head it into the area. Gundogan – just offside, I think, but not flagged – volleys over on the turn from four yards with his left foot. It was quite a hard chance, but a chance nonetheless.

85 min Eriksen tries to chip Ederson from the halfway line. Ederson chests it down with nonchalant disdain. Then Rose, already booked, is late on Fernandinho, but not so late as to merit a second yellow.

82 min “Has anybody checked on pre-match nerves’ Guy Hornsby recently?” asks Justin Kavanagh. “I think he might actually have been swallowed by the couch at this point, and will be found by a relative looking for change in future years.”

As soon as I extricate myself from the Llorente-shaped hole I’ve dug, I’ll go looking for him.

80 min “When Spurs win this with human shipwreck Victor Wanyama as their central midfield and Fernando Llorente running in behind on the counter attack,” says Phil Cowen, “does it make tactics, preparation and football management as a whole officially redundant?”